Rio Negro gnatcatcher

The Rio Negro gnatcatcher (Polioptila facilis) is a species of bird in the family Polioptilidae. It is found in northwest Brazil near the river Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon.

Rio Negro gnatcatcher
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Polioptilidae
Genus: Polioptila
Species:
P. facilis
Binomial name
Polioptila facilis
Zimmer, J.T., 1942

The Rio Negro gnatcatcher was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Guianan gnatcatcher (Polioptila guianensis) but is now considered as a separate species based on the significant differences in morphology and vocalisation.[1][2]

References

  1. Whitney, B.M.; Alonso, J.A. (2005). "A new species of gnatcatcher from white-sand forests of northern Amazonian Peru with revision of the Polioptila guianensis complex". Wilson Bulletin. 117 (2): 113–127. doi:10.1676/04-064.
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
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